Although we generally celebrate bookstore anniversaries on five-year marks (5th, 10th, 15th, etc.), we couldn't pass up a birthday photo posted on Facebook this week by the legendary Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris.
"Happy birthday to us! And salutations and gratitude to George Whitman above!" the bookstore noted. "On 14 August 1951, George opened this bookshop at 37 rue de la Bûcherie, Kilometre Zero, Paris. He said: 'I created this bookstore like a man would write a novel, building each room like a chapter, and I like people to open the door the way they open a book, a book that leads into a magic world in their imaginations.'
"Today the shop is run by George's daughter, Sylvia, and her partner, David, in the same spirit that it has been for the past 68 years and with the same guiding motto: 'Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.' "